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Countdown to AGBT

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Medical genomics in the post-genome era

Countdown to AGBT

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The Marco Island meeting is just a few short days away!  As I look over the agenda, I find myself more than a little daunted at the esoteric group of scientists who’ll be presenting.  From WashU there will be talks by David Dooling on next-gen informatics, Todd Wylie on miRNA sequencing, and Jon Armstrong on our liquid-phase capture technology.  I’ve seen early versions of these talks, and all look to be outstanding.  Our center’s leadership will be well-represented; Elaine Mardis is on the organizing committee and will chair the “New Genomic Frontiers” session on Saturday just after a keynote session by our own Rick Wilson.  I’m also looking forward to hearing:

  • Chad Nusbaum (Broad) on technology platforms.
  • Keynotes by Eric Lander (Broad), Eddy Rubin (JGI), Richard Gibbs (Baylor), and Kari Stefansson (deCODE)
  • Tom Hudson (OICR), an old friend from the HapMap Project
  • Andy Futreal (Sanger) on structural variation in cancer
  • Howard McLeod (UNC, formerly WashU) on pharmacogenomics
  • Len Pennacchio (LBNL) on ChIP-seq to predict tissue-specific enhancers
  • Workshops by Illumina/Solexa and Roche/454
  • Presentations by Pacific Biosciences and Complete Genomics

Genomics Bloggers Will Meet!

I’m also looking forward to meeting Daniel MacArthur, of the Genetic Future blog (and also Sanger) who will give a talk on molecular bar-coding with Illumina sequencing.  We’re planning to get together with David Dooling (PolITigenomics), Anthony Fejes (Fejes.ca), and other bloggers from the genomics community for lunch one day.  Please shoot one of us an e-mail if you’d like to join us!